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Description

The Museum’s collection includes a thumbprint goblet made about 1850–70 by Bakewell, Pears and Company of Pittsburgh (1836–1882). One of the earliest pressed- glass patterns used in the Pittsburgh area, thumbprint was an imitation of more expensive cut glass, with concave oval facets that create a highly reflective surface. These reproduction goblets are based on the nineteenth-century original.

Art History

The development of pressed glass during the 1820s revolutionized glassmaking by enabling the molding and decorating of a glass object in a single process. By the late 1840s, glass- pressing technology had markedly improved, and the U.S. glass industry expanded as factories supplied affordable glassware to the growing middle class. At mid-century, most pressed glass was clear and bore simple geometric patterns, but it was soon followed by novel colors and ornate patterns.

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Description

The Museum’s collection includes a thumbprint goblet made about 1850–70 by Bakewell, Pears and Company of Pittsburgh (1836–1882). One of the earliest pressed- glass patterns used in the Pittsburgh area, thumbprint was an imitation of more expensive cut glass, with concave oval facets that create a highly reflective surface. These reproduction goblets are based on the nineteenth-century original.

Art History

The development of pressed glass during the 1820s revolutionized glassmaking by enabling the molding and decorating of a glass object in a single process. By the late 1840s, glass- pressing technology had markedly improved, and the U.S. glass industry expanded as factories supplied affordable glassware to the growing middle class. At mid-century, most pressed glass was clear and bore simple geometric patterns, but it was soon followed by novel colors and ornate patterns.